I'm currently running my online book store website on EasyStore. After few months of using it, I've decided to build my own e-commerce website using Wordpress + WooCommerce during my renewal month (4/2015).

EasyStore and other related e-commerce solutions are good for business owners that doesn't have the time to configure and build their own e-commerce website, but the sacrifice will be the flexibility and the ability to expand the feature of the website (yes you can, pay more to upgrade).

I have explored a few open source e-commerce platform such as Magento, OSCommerce, etc and found out WordPress + WooCommerce might be a good choice because it's simple and there are a lot of plugins available to be used for free.

So now I need suggestion on webhosting+domain (for .com.my) service which is good and affordable (budget RM 300 and below). I'm still thinking whether to sign up the EBiz Power Hosting Plan from Exabytes and at the same time explore other more affordable choices.

To web hosting sales agents, I welcome you to post your webhosting+domain packages here. Thank you.

Serverfreak is a good choice with excellent support.
The Linux Shared hosting is still within your budget.

Trust me you don't want to limit yourself with 5-10 email accounts, you don't know when you need to create more.

I strongly suggest Serverfreaks. Been with them for almost 7 years and their support never fails me.

There was one time my domain got attacked with spams and they help me resolved it with additional security software installation at no extra cost.

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll download Opencart and try out soon.

As for security issue, my e-commerce website currently only accept cash deposit/bank transfer and Maybank2u Pay. Is it okay to compromise to this simpler solution if my website doesn't accept credit card payment now?

By the way, after browsing the packages offered by ServerFreak, I'm very interested in the Linux Shared Hosting packages. Might contact your team next year when I want to order the package and transfer my domain. Hope that you'll have promotion when I want to order.

By looking at the positive feedback, I've decided to transfer my domain and sign up a new web hosting package at ServerFreak. I'm getting more frustrated with the search function at EasyStore that giving me and my visitors incorrect results. I have complaint the issues to them at least 3 times but the problem will come back even after they fix it.

But now I'm considering whether to maintain my existing domain (.com.my) or just use the free domain included in some of the web hosting packages (e.g. Deluxe).

It might be expensive for me to maintain both domains as my business is just a start-up with low volume of sales actually.